Making a JIRA Plugin

Background

I wanted to make a plugin for Atlassian’s JIRA platform that can be used on the cloud based solution. This walk-through will cover the necessary steps to get going and create a JIRA Plugin that will be it’s own page. I will cover getting the SDK, setting up Eclipse, and adding a new page to JIRA. This turned out to be more painful than it should have been thanks to confusing and outdated documentation.

Setup

This post will cover development in OSX (El Capitan more specifically). If you are a Windows user, check out the official documentation.

Verify the Java Developer Kit (JDK) is Installed

Open Terminal

Enter: javac -version

If Java is installed, then move onto the next section.

If you see the following prompt select “OK” (if you select “More Info…” your default browser will open a link to Oracle.com